Physical security lapses will getcha every time.

Mark C. Henderson markh at wimsey.bc.ca
Fri Aug 27 21:43:30 PDT 1993


>  
> Fact Two: That's why you won't see messages from me either (a.)
> signed with PGP, or (b.) encrypted with PGP from any of my other
> e-mail accounts. All are UNIX (open) environments and I don't like
> the implications of the possibilities of my secret key being exposed,
> even if I do trust the folks I work with. Call me a schizoid.
Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There
is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix
box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD.

The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use
all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite
mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way
without messing with MSDOS. 

Mark

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Mark Henderson      markh at wimsey.bc.ca (personal account)
RIPEM key available by key server/finger/E-mail
  MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433






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